The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a virtually infinite number of directions and is capable of performing an array ...

A GRANDMA’s life was saved when doctors replaced her artery with a ‘frozen elephant trunk’ in a groundbreaking op. Jeanette, 70, was in desperate need of surgery, as her aorta \b… ...

The frozen elephant trunk procedure involves replacing the entire ascending aorta, including the branch vessels supplying blood to the brain. In this specific case, the patient’s entire ...

Mumbai: Mumbai doctors perform a rare Frozen Elephant Trunk technique in a complex surgery to save a patient suffering from a life-threatening aortic condition. The technique involves a ...

Myanmarese Operated Using Frozen Elephant Trunk Method. (Representational Images) Chennai: Doctors at Madras Medical Mission (MMM) successfully operated on a 55-year-old from Myanmar, ...

Chennai: Cardiologists at a city hospital conducted a rare surgery using a special technique — frozen elephant trunk— to treat a man from Myanmar, 55, who had a life threatening rupture in the ...

The tube, bizarrely called a frozen elephant trunk, will be stitched in to replace Jeantte's aorta. Then Amit will take out her faulty aortic valve before sewing in a new one made of bovine tissue.

Skin wrinkles and folds enable asymmetric stretch in the elephant trunk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Published online July 18, 2022. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2122563119.

Mumbai doctors perform a rare Frozen Elephant Trunk technique in a complex surgery to save a patient suffering from a life-threatening aortic condition. The technique involves a combination of ...